Key Chronic Pain Statistics and Facts An estimated20.9% of US adults(51.6 million)live with chronic pain. Arthritisis the most common chronic pain condition. Womenand thoseover the age of 65are themost likely to suffer from chronic pain. ...
Chronic pain, especially at multiple sites in the body, was linked to a higher risk of dementia in a study of more than 350 000 UK Biobank participants aged 39 to 73 years. After adjustments for potential confounders, participants who reported a single site of pain had a 15% high...
In the UK, NICE(the National Institute For Health & Care Excellence) revised their chronic painguidelinesin 2021. These guidelines are what healthcare services in the UK are to use for diagnosing, treating and managing patients. I wrote to them with my thoughts during their earlier phase of d...
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The roots of CPS are both physical and mental. Some experts think that people with the condition have a problem with the system of nerves and glands that the body uses to handlestress. That makes them feel pain differently. Other experts say CPS is a learned response. When you're in pain...
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Fig. 6: Contribution of macaque DRG cell types to partitioned heritability of human chronic pain sites. a UK Biobank chronic pain sites mapped to the human body. Number of chronic case participants shown in parentheses. b Heatmap of FDR-corrected p values for enrichment in partitioned heritabil...
for a subset of patients linked to Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), inpatient admissions and outpatient contacts were compared usingincidence rate ratios (IRRs) derived from Poisson regression.#A total of 1907 patients prescribed tapentadol PR were identified and 1791 (93.9%) had a pain diagnosis...
The GWAS summary statistics for chronic hip pain, chronic back pain and chronic neck pain were downloaded from https://gwas.mrcieu.ac.uk/datasets with the category codes as ukb-b-133, ukb-b-8463 and ukb-b-16118, respectively. Human brain gene expression data in AHBA can be downloaded ...